INTERMEDIATE ONE SYLLABUS

GENERAL ENGLISH

• Articulate argument – using connectors to: make contrasts, state results and give reasons

• Make generalizations about routine facts by using gerunds as subjects

• Express purpose.

• Handle degrees: express excess and insufficiency

• Use as…as/not so…as to express similar and different characteristics and traits in people,
features in

objects, places and situations.

• Discuss experience, task completion and past to present activities and their duration

• Discuss preferences.

• Have greater communication ability:

o Verbs + gerund

o Verbs + to infinitive

BUSINESS SKILLS

TALK SHOP

Informal discussions about different aspects of the business

• Discuss relevant issues related to the participant’s specific business field paying specific
attention to

the careful articulation of argument:

o expressing contrast, stating results and giving reasons

o making generalizations and managing degree

o comparing similar and different characteristics

o focusing on the present results of the process

• Discuss issues related to insurance.

PHONE CONVERSATIONS

• Manage telephone conversations

BEING A HOST TO A FOREIGN VISITOR

• Be a host to a team of foreign visitors

TRAVELING ABROAD

• Thank someone for dinner. Express Courtesies

• Discuss cultural differences.

• Deal with lost baggage.

• Make a restaurant reservation.

• Organize car rental.

INTERACTING WITH FOREIGNERS IN OPEN CONTEXTS

• Initiate, keep going and close conversations.

• Repair breakdowns.

• Confirm understanding

• Indicate failure to understand.

• Invite others in.

• Listen actively or indicate understanding

MOVING TOWARDS MORE FORMAL PRESENTATIONS

• Handle the necessary elements to make an effective presentation:

o preparation, delivery and language

• Identify the different parts in a more formal presentation.

• Use signposting expressions

• Make a company presentation.

MOVING TOWARDS MORE FORMAL MEETINGS

• Hand over to another person.

• Bring people into the discussion.

• Stop people talking and prevent irrelevance.

• Ask for repetition and clarification.

• Make interruptions and digressions

• Handle specific expressions for meetings.

• Participate in an idea‐generating meeting.

E‐MAIL & REPORT WRITING

• Make, discuss and accept quotations.

• Write simple reports about work‐related issues, passing on routine factual information and
stating reasons for action.